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The Handmaiden’s Tale

April 3, 2012 / Drama, Movies

In the near future war rages across the fictional Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99% of the female population sterile. Kate (Offred in the novel) is captured after seeing her husband killed and daughter kidnapped while the family tried to escape into Canada. Kate is trained to become a Handmaid, a concubine for one of the privileged but barren couples who rule the country’s religious fundamentalist regime. Although she resists being indoctrinated into the bizarre cult of the [...]

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Malice

March 26, 2012 / Drama, Movies

Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman star in this suspenseful thriller that is, no question, the kind of movie that Hitchcock would be making today. The twisting, turning plot contains rape, murder, life-and-death trauma, and a fight to the death…all within the first 45 minutes. Andy Safien (Pullman), an associate dean at a small New England college outside of Boston that’s currently under siege by a serial rapist. Andy’s wife Tracy (Kidman) volunteers in the pediatrics ward of St. Agnes Hospital. [...]

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Akira

January 24, 2012 / Animation, Movies

Akira(アキラ?) is a Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and starring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo’s manga Akira. The film depicts a dystopian Neo-Tokyo in 2019 and focuses on biker Tetsuo Shima (Nozomu Sasaki), his psychic powers, and the biker gang member Shotaro Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) who tries to prevent Tetsuo from releasing the dangerous psychic Akira. [...]

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Howl’s Moving Castle

January 24, 2012 / Animation, Movies

Howl’s Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro?) is a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones. Mamoru Hosoda, director of one episode and two movies from the Digimon series, was originally selected to direct but abruptly left the project, leaving the then-retired Miyazaki to take up the director’s role. Wynne Jones’s novel allows Miyazaki to combine a plucky young [...]

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Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

January 23, 2012 / Action, Comedy, Movies

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag. In order to pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. The film brought Guy Ritchie international acclaim [...]

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

January 23, 2012 / Comedy, Movies

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived during the gap between the third and fourth series of their popular BBC television programme Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In contrast to the group’s first film, And Now for Something Completely Different which was a compilation of sketches [...]

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Galaxy Quest

January 23, 2012 / Comedy, Movies, Sci-Fi

Galaxy Quest is a sci-fi comedy about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord. It was directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon. Mark Johnson and Charles Newirth produced the film for DreamWorks, and David Newman composed the music score. Portions of the film were shot in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA, and non-humanoid creatures were created by Stan Winston Studio from designs by Jordu Schell. [...]

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Popeye

January 23, 2012 / Movies, Musical

Popeye is a 1980 live-action film adaptation directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre aka Popeye comic strip. Marketed with the tagline, “The sailor man with the spinach can!”, the musical stars Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

January 23, 2012 / Comedy, Movies

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf’s novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings. Who Framed Roger Rabbit stars Bob Hoskins as a private detective who investigates a murder involving the famous cartoon character, Roger Rabbit. Charles Fleischer co-stars as the titular character’s voice, [...]

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